SFFANZ News Page

From now on, most of the news about SF, Fantasy and Horror which is of interest to New
Zealand fans will be posted on our new News Blog. Click on the link below to visit the
site.

The News Blog will let you subscribe to the news service by joining an email list. You
can also pick up an RSS feed; and you can even follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Or you
can just bookmark the link and visit the News Blog whenever you wish to check for updates.

Since it is a blog, you will also be able to post comments on the news items as well.

We will continue to post significant SFFANZ related news here on the front page of the
SFFANZ site -- particularly news related to the Sir Julius Vogel Awards. The News Blog
itself will be reserved for items of more general interest, though there is obviously an
overlap between these areas and some items may well be duplicated.

The finalists for the 2018 Sir Julius Vogel awards have now been announced. Click through for full information on Finalists as well as information on voting, the SJV Voting Packet and the location of the awards ceremony.

If you email or post your votes, they must
reach us by 27th March 2018. In all other cases, they must reach us by the close of voting
at Conclave3 at 12 noon, Sunday 1st April 2018.

Sir Julius Vogel Award medallions announced

We have created some medallions for use of winners and finalists of the Sir Julius Vogel Awards. These can ONLY be used in association with Finalist or Winners works. We will shortly have guidelines for usage. In the mean time, here are the two medallions.

Thanks to Sally McLennan and Joel Liochan for their help in creating these.

Sir Julius Vogel Awards 2017 Winners

The winners for the 2017 Sir Julius Vogel awards have now been announced. You can find full information on winners here.

Sir Julius Vogel Awards 2016 Issue in Best Collected Work Category

SFFANZ regrets to announce that, due to an error in tallying ballots, the 2016 SJV for best collected work was inadvertently awarded to the wrong work. SFFANZ has contacted those affected to apologise for this error.

We have carried out a full recount of all the categories. We have found that the error had minimal impacts on most of the voting (i.e. the outcome wasn't affected) but this did have an impact on the Best Collected Work category – when the ballots are correctly tallied, the winner is in fact Write Off-line 2015: The Earth We Knew, edited by Jean Gilbert and Chad Dick.

As the ballots were received in a number of different ways (postal, email, and in the ballot box at the convention), an error was made in collating the votes received, and some votes were inadvertently misplaced – an error which our processes failed to identify until the day after the results were announced. This error was nothing to do with our helpers who generously gave their time to scrutinize and count the ballots. The error happened before the counting stage

We are very sorry for any distress this error has caused, and we are enormously embarrassed that this problem occurred. We will be examining the process we follow to determine how this error was able to happen and how it was able to go unnoticed until now, and will change the process to ensure it cannot happen again in the future.

Please note that you must be a member of SFFANZ or a member of Reconnaissance to vote
for the Sir Julius Vogel awards. Ballot counting takes place at Reconnaissance, so you can
vote there, or you can email or post your votes directly to SFFANZ. If you email or post
your votes, they must reach us by 1st April 2015. In all other cases, they must reach us
by the close of voting at Reconnaissance at 12 noon, Sunday 5th April 2015.

Final nomination list for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards 2015

The final nomination list together with a voting form for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards
of 2015 is available here.

Sir Julius Vogel Awards 2015

The nomination period for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards for 2015 has now closed. A list
of nominated works will be published shortly.

Nominations closing soon for Sir Julius Vogel Awards

Just a reminder that the nomination period for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards of 2015
closes at 8.00pm on January 31st.

Sir Julius Vogel Awards 2015

Nominations for the 2015 Sir Julius Vogel awards are now being accepted. The nomination
period will close at 8.00pm on 31st January 2015. The awards recognise excellence in
science fiction, fantasy, or horror works created by New Zealanders and New Zealand
residents, and first published or released in the 2014 calendar year. Anyone can make a
nomination and it is free!

To make a nomination please email sjv_awards@sffanz.org.nz.
See the website for the categories and get busy reading NZ authors and watching NZ movies.

Nominations for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards 2014 are now closed. A list of nominated
works will be published shortly.

Sir Julius Vogel Awards 2014

Nominations for the 2014 Sir
Julius Vogel awards are now being accepted. The nomination period will close at 8.00pm on
15th February 2014. The awards recognise excellence in science fiction, fantasy, or horror
works created by New Zealanders and New Zealand residents, and first published or released
in the 2013 calendar year. Anyone can make a nomination and it is free!

To make a nomination please email sjv_awards@sffanz.org.nz.
See the website for the categories and get busy reading NZ authors and watching NZ movies.

Voting for the awards will take place at the 2012 National SF Convention unCONventional

Sir Julius Vogel Award Winners 2011

The list of winners of the Sir Julius Vogel Awards for 2011 is now available here.

Sir Julius Vogel Awards 2011

The final list of nominees for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards 2011 is now available here.

Sir Julius Vogel Award Nominations

Nominations for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards for 2011 are now closed. A list of nominees
will be published shortly.

Sir Julius Vogel Awards 2011

The Sir Julius Vogel sub-committee of SFFANZ is accepting nominations for science
fiction and fantasy works first published or released in the 2010 calendar year. Details
of the Sir Julius Vogel Awards can be viewed by clicking on this link.

Nominations open on January 1st 2011 and close on 31st March 2011 at 8.00pm.
Please email your nominations to sjv_awards@sffanz.org.nz

Please send one nomination per email and include as many contact details as possible for
the nominee as well as yourself.

Voting for the awards will take place at the 2011 National Science Fiction convention, Context.

Please support the works that you like by nominating them, even if you think (or know)
that they have already been nominated - additional nominations still matter. The number of
nominations a work receives may have a direct bearing on whether it makes it to the final
ballot.

Sir Julius Vogel award nominations will be open in 2011

The Sir Julius Vogel awards will be open in January. The award is for any science
fiction, fantasy or horror works created by a New Zealander and first published or
released in the 2010 calendar year.

Anyone can make a nomination and it is free! See the website for the categories open
and get busy reading NZ authors and watching NZ movies.

Captain's Log
is the newsletter of the publisher HarperCollins (New Zealand). Click on the link to visit
the HarperCollins Voyager web site. There is a link from there to read the newsletter, to
see further information about HarperCollins and to join the list to receive the Captain's
Log.

New Zealand SF News From Concatenation

The Concatenation seasonal SF news page has just been posted and is rather large (as it
summarises the lead SF news from many countries). However the entries of New Zealand
interest are:

The Sir Julius Vogel Awards for 2010 have been announced. The results are available here.

Hachette SF And Fantasy Discussion Page

The
Realm is an official Science Fiction and Fantasy Facebook fan page set up by Hachette
New Zealand to talk about all their great authors. It's just getting started, but in the
coming weeks and months they'll have lots of things to post including promotions,
freebies, reviews, publishing and event announcements, and sneak peeks to up-coming books
with chapter samplers online!

Speculative Fiction By New Zealand Writers -- Book Launch

Imagine worlds where strange creatures roam the hills of Miramar, desperate survivors
cling to the remains of a submerged country, and the residents of Gisborne reluctantly
serve alien masters.

Those are just some of the visions painted in a new volume of speculative fiction by
kiwi writers to be launched later this month. Published by Wellington-based small press
Random Static, A Foreign Country: New Zealand Speculative Fiction features work by
best-selling author Juliet Marillier; poet, musician, and writer Bill Direen; and several
Sir Julius Vogel Award winners, prominent writers, and talented newcomers.

Popular and award-winning Australian author Sean Williams, who will be in Wellington at
the time of the launch, was impressed by his sneak preview, describing the anthology as
"richly populated with the frightening and the fabulous, the thrilling and the
thoughtful, the inspiring and the inspired."

Co-editor Anna Caro hopes the works in the collection will both provide points of
familiarity to readers, and take their imagination to new places. "Many of the
stories are set in New Zealand, present or future, and portray worlds which are both
instantly recognisable and nothing like the country we currently live in. This anthology
showcases some of the remarkable range of New Zealand's world-class speculative fiction
writers."

A Foreign Country will be launched at 6pm on Friday 27 August at Au Contraire,
the 31st National Science Fiction Convention (Quality Hotel, Cuba St, Wellington).

A Foreign Country can be ordered online from Random Static. The cover art can be
seen here.

A Foreign Country ISBN: 978-0-473-16916-9

Science Fiction Comedy Series

Super Awesome Mega Battle Tank is a science fiction comedy film series in
13 episodes. It has been written and directed by Bill O'Byrne and concerns the adventures
of an inept three-man team from the Kiwi Space Patrol on a mission to recover a stolen New
Zealand battle tank. You can read more about it at this site.

A New Award For Unpublished Writers Of Teen Fiction

Storylines Trust and HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand are proud to announce an
exciting new annual award on the children's literary scene - the Storylines Tessa Duder
Award for unpublished writers of fiction for young adults, named in honour of one of New
Zealand's best writers for young adults.

Unpublished writers looking for an opportunity to emulate the outstanding writing
careers of Kiwi authors such as William Taylor, Kate De Goldi, Bernard Beckett or Tessa
Duder herself will be excited by this new initiative.

The award has been set up in recognition of Tessa's outstanding contribution to
children's literature, both in terms of publishing output and her tireless work in the
area of children's literacy, particularly as one of the founding members of the Storylines
Children's Literature Charitable Trust.

The Library and Information Association Of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) has announced
the finalists for the Prestigious Children's Book Awards for 2010.

Some of the finalistsare also Sir Julius Vogel Award finalists. See this link for more information.

Many congratulations to the finalists from SFFANZ.

NZ Post Children's Book Awards

The winners of the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards have been announced. See this link for details.

Some of the award winners are also Sir Julius Vogel Award finalists. See this link for more
information.

Many congratulations to the Children's Book Award winners from SFFANZ.

Interview With Nalini Singh

Here are two links to an interview with Nalini Singh on Women on Air, Plains 96.9 FM.

The first
takes you to the website and gives you the option to listen online or download the file in
MP3 format. (Press the "play" button to start listening).

The second should take you directly to the the mp3 version, which will
then commence playing.

The 32nd New Zealand National SF Convention in 2011

Following a poll of SFFANZ/Conscription members, it has been decided that New Zealand's
32nd National Science Fiction Convention will be ConText to be held in Auckland over
Queen's Birthday weekend 2011. Catherine Asaro has been asked to be the guest of honour
and Lynelle Howell has been asked to be the fan guest of honour.

38% of those polled responded, and every single response was in favour of the
convention. The decision will be ratified at the next SFFANZ AGM.

We're compiling lists of works by New Zealanders in the fields of Science
Fiction, Fantasy and Horror.
Do you know of any published books, short stories, novellas, movies, TV shows, short films
etc that have been produced this year?
Or do you know of fans doing artwork, writing stories, creating fanzines, or other worthy
creations?
Then let us know!
We want to put links or information up on this website so that these works are known to as
many people as possible.
Send your information to us at listings@sffanz.org.nz

Please do NOT send us your manuscripts. SFFANZ is not a publisher.

SFFANZ is a non-profit organisation and registered charity
designed to bring together fans of the fantastic in New Zealand